Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Important Topics For NEET PG 2025

Next in our series of high-yield topics for NEET PG 2025 preparation is Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. It is a multidisciplinary subject, and among one of the easiest and shortest subjects one has to study for NEET PG preparation. However, it is utterly factual in nature with a lot of practical information. 

So, in addition to hard work and proper time allotment, you will also need the right preparation approach to ace the subject and retain all the essential information for the exam. 

To make your preparation more effective and productive, PrepLadder has compiled a list of all the high-yield topics for Forensic Medicine & Toxicology. You can go through the list below. 

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High-Yield Topics For Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

As per the exam pattern of NEET-PG, you can expect around 10 questions to be asked from Forensic Medicine & Toxicology. This makes it one of the easiest and most high-yielding subjects. Make sure you read all the important topics from the subject listed below and know where you need to focus your preparations. 

Mechanical Injuries

• Abrasion
• Contusion
• Laceration 
• Incised wound
• Chop wound

Regional Injuries

• Skull fractures
• Intracranial hemorrhages

Thermal Injuries

• Cold injuries - frostbite
• Heat injuries - heat stroke
• Burns
• Scalds

Firearm Injuries

• Would ballistics

Indian Legal System

• Inquest system 
• Types of evidences & witness
• Recording of evidence in the court of law

Medical Law & Ethics

• Professional misconduct 
• Professional negligence - types
• Doctrines related to medical negligence
• Doctrines related to consent

Legal Sections

• Homicide
• Criminal abortion
• Hurt - types
• Sexual offences

Violent Asphyxiation Death

• Hanging
• Strangulation
• Types
• Drowning - Pathophysiology

Thanatology 

• Early changes
• Eye changes
• Mortis
• Late changes
• Putrefaction changes

Human Identification

• Race determination 
• Age estimation 
• Skull
• Ossification- wrist, sternum, sacrum, skull
• Dentition
• Sexual dimorphism - skull & pelvis
• Definite methods of identification

Sexual Offences

• Medical examination of accused and victim
• Seminal stains test
• Sexual perversions
• Tests for live born
• Signs of maceration

Sexual Jurisprudence

• Satyriasis & Nymphomania
• Impotence & Frigidity 
• Suppositious child, Posthumous child
• Atavism 
• Twin pregnancies
• Phantom pregnancies

Toxicology

• Poisons & smell
• Poisons & hypostasis
• Gastric lavage
• Legal duties in a case of poisoning 
• Classification
• Antidotes list
• Plant irritants
• Snakebite envenomation
• Metallic irritants
• Delirients
• Spinal poisons
• Somniferous poisons
• Identification of cardiac poisons
• OPC management

The list above will give you a broad idea of all the important topics of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology around which you must base your preparation. 

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FMT IMPORTANT TOPICS FOR NEET PG 2025

Postmortem Techniques

• History
• Autopsy Types
• Postmortem Techniques 
• Types of Incisions
• Body Cavity to be Opened First
• Organs to be Dissected 
• Exhumation 
• Definitions

Court of law 

• Types of witness 
• Important facts of the IEA
• Courts 
• Other courts 
• Commutation of the death sentence 
• Judicial versus execute magistrate 
• Inquest in india 
• Court procedure 
• Dying deceleration versus dying deposition 

New indian laws 

• Important BNS 
• Important BNSS

Torture

• Types of Torture

Traces of Evidence

• Blood Stains 
• Semen Analysis
• Hair Analysis 
• Other Important Information

Sexual Offences

• Natural
• Unnatural 
• Sexual Perversions 

Impotence and Sterility

• Impotence
• Frigidity (Female + Rigid)
• Sterility
• Hindu Marriage Act 
• Fecundation ab Extra
• Posthumous Child 
• Supposititious/ Fictitious/ Substituted Child 
• Twin Pregnancy 
• Pseudocyesis/ False (Spurious)
• ART(Assisted Reproduction Technique)

Virginity, Abortion and MTP

• Differences Between Sign of Virginity and Defloration
• Hymen 
• Pregnancy sign
• Lochia (Discharge from the vagina after delivery)
• Abortion
• MTP Act (Medical Termination of Pregnancy)

Medical Jurisprudence

• Medical Etiquette
• Medical Ethics
• Serious Professional Misconduct / Infamous Conduct 
• Euthanasia or Mercy Killing (Painless Death)
• Living Will
• Professional Secrecy
• Consent 
• Full Disclosure VS Therapeutic Privilege
• Exceptions of Informed Consent
• Consent Laws
• Medical Negligence / Malpraxis
• Civil Vs Criminal 
• Medical negligence IPC 
• Contribute Negligence 
• Defenses against Negligence 
• Declarations

Infanticide

• Fetal/Newborn/Infant Autopsy
• Infanticide
• Dead Born
• Live Birth
• Signs
• Registration of Birth and Death Act 1969 
• Criminal Abortion
• SIDS
• Munchausen Syndrome of Proxy
• Battered Baby Syndrome

Asphyxial Death

• Asphyxia
• Signs of Asphyxia 
• Types of Asphyxial Deaths 
• Lab Test

Road Traffic Accident Injuries

• Motorcyclist Injuries
• Pedestrian Injuries
• Car Occupant Injuries

Thermal Injury

• Hypothermia 
• Heat Injury
• Local heat injury 
• Corrosive or chemical burn
• Classification of born
• Wilson Classification
• Necklacing
• PM finding -in burn cases
• Electrocution: (electric shock)
• Cause of Death
• Postmortem finding
• Lightning injuries 

Regional Injury

• Head Injury
• Skull fracture 
• Coup Vs. Contrecoup injury
• Intracranial hemorrhages 
• Epidural Hemorrhage 
• Subdural Hematoma
• Subarachnoid (SAH)
• Intracerebral hemorrhage

Mechanical Injuries

• Classification of Mechanical Injuries 
• A. Due to Blunt Force (Stone, Hammer, orHeavy Objects) 
• B. Due to Sharp Force (Knife, Blade, Sword, Axe) 
• Defense Wounds 
• Fabricated Wounds

Forensic Ballistics

• Firearm (Ballistics)
• Classification of Ballistics
• Classification of Firearm
• Advantages of Rifling in Rifled Firearms
• Definition of Bore/Gauge
• How to increase the range of Shot- Gun
• Cartridge
• Gun Powder
• Gunshot Residue Test (GSR)
• The Sequence in Firing
• Bullets
• Types of Bullets
• Kennedy Phenomenon
• Rayalaseema Phenomenon

Discharge From Gun Effects

• Effects 
• Burning vs Tattooing
• Grease Collar vs Abrasion Collar
• Range of Rifle and Shotgun
• Contact Shot - Rifled Weapon 
• Rifled Firearm 
• Entry vs Exit Wound
• Metal Fouling
• Bullet Fingerprint 
• Beveling of Skull
• Shot-Gun 
• Billiard Ball Effect vs Balling/ Welding
• Blast Injuries 
• Bomb

Identification 

• Corpus Delicti
• Identification
• Race
• Sexual Differentiation
• Age of Fetus 
• Dentition
• Stature
• Multiplication Factor
• Length of Bone
• Medicolegal Importance of Different Ages
• Identification Method
• Fingerprint 
• Poroscopy
• Palatoscopy
• Cheiloscopy
• Tattoo Mark 
• Podogram
• Superimposition technique
• Anthropometry
• Scar
• Frontal Sinus Pattern
• Concealed Sex

General Toxicology

• Ideal Homicidal Poison
• Ideal Suicidal Poison
• Duty of doctor during poisoning
• Information to the Police
• NDPS Act 
• Drug and Cosmetic Rule
• Toxicological Analysis
• Special Preservation
• Special Smell
• Colour of postmortem staining
• Poisons causing PCT Necrosis
• Gastric Lavage (Stomach Wash) 
• Universal antidote in gastric lavage
• Coma cocktail
• Emetics
• Antagonism
• Antidotes in different poisoning 
• Chelating Agents 
• Contraindication for Hemodialysis
• Alkaline Diuresis
• Acidic diuresis
• Stomach Mucosa 
• Insecticide (Agricultural Poison) 
• Organophosphorus Poisoning
• Carbamates
• Organochlorine
• Pyrethroids
• Inorganic Irritant-Nonmetallic Poison
• Inorganic Irritant- Metallic Poison
• Thallium Poisoning (ideal homicidal poison)
• Starvation
• Asphyxiant
• Carbon monoxide (CO) 
• Cyanide
• Hydrogen sulphide 
• Miscellaneous laws 
• Protection of Children from sexual offense (POCSO) act-2012 
• Human Organ Transplantation Act (HOTA- 1994)
• Medical certification of cause of death (MCCD)
• RBD ACT-10(3) 

Animal Irritant Poison

• Blister Beetle (BB)
• Scorpion Buthidae (Venomatous Arachnids) 
• Spider (Venomatous Arachnids)
• Snakes 

Corrosives Poisoning

• Corrosives Poisoning Laws 
• Classification of Corrosives
• Corrosive PoisoningManagemenSulphuric Acid Poisoning
• Sulphuric Acid Poisoning
• Nitric Acid Poisoning
• Oxalic Acid Poisoning
• Carbolic Acid
• Boric acid Poisoning
• Hydrofluoric Acid Poisoning

Spinal Cardiac Poison

• Spinal Poisons 
• Cardiac Poisons 

Somniferous Poison

• Opium 
• Morphine
• Heroin: Semi Synthetic 

Organic Plant Irritant Poisons

• Deliriant Poison 

Metal Poisons, Miscellaneous Poisons and CNS Depressant

• Arsenic Poisoning 
• Lead Poisoning
• Miscellaneous Poisons 
• CNS Depressant – Ethanol

Thanatology

• Types of Death
• Post-mortem changes 
• Eye changes
• Algor mortis 
• Rigor Mortis or Cadaveric stiffening or Cadaveric rigidity 
• Causes of muscle stiffening after death 
• Decomposition 
• Casper Dictum
• Modification of Putrefaction 
• Embalming or Thanatopraxia
• Ante-mortem blister vs Post-mortem blister

Forensic Psychiatry 

• Insane 
• Civil Responsibility of Insane 
• Lucid Interval
• Perception Disorder
• Thought Disorder
• Delusion of Double
• Phobia
• Impulse
• Mental Health Care (MHC) Act 2017
• True Insanity vs Feigned Insanity
• Criminal Responsibility in Some Cases

Previous Year Questions from Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

To better understand the type of questions asked from Forensic Medicine & Toxicology in the NEET PG exam, read below. We have listed some questions in the NEET PG 2021 exam. 

Q. 1. A guy was sitting in balcony, which was overlooking park. He was sitting naked for sexual gratfication.

A. Voyeurism 

B. Masochism 

C. Exhibitionism 

D. Fetichism

Answer: Exhibitionism 

Q. 2. While recording evidence in the court of law, the lawyer asked the witness ‘Did A killed B’. witness said Yes’. The type of question permitted in

A. Examination in chief

B. Direct examination

C. Re-direct examination 

D. Cross examination

Answer: Cross examination

Q. 3. A child was playing with a fruit and ate it. He was having irritability, not passing urine, constipation, Choose the poison and antidote. 

A. Datura and physostigmine

B. Yellow oleander and physostigmine

C. Datura and digibind

D. Yellow oleander and digibind

Answer: Datura and physostigmine

Q. 4. A man was working in field, collapsed in a hot summer afternoon. Which of the following symptoms least likely to be seen

A. Sweating 

B. Hot skin

C. Hypotension 

D. Temperature 105.2F

Answer: Sweating 

Q. 5. A woman gave birth to twins. The father thought the children does not belong to him. DNA fingerprinting was done and it was found that one child belong to him. It is a 

A. Case of superfecundation 

B. Case of suppositious child

C. Case of atavism

D. Case of superfetation 

Answer: Case of superfecundation 

For a detailed explanation of these questions and answers, you can check out the PrepLadder app. The app has a dedicated Qbank and Previous year questions, which you can practice to analyse and improve your prep. Plus, you will also find related video lectures and treasures for each answer, which will further help you prepare seamlessely. 

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